The stone I got is orange with red shillers and, on one axis it color shifts to green! I will post a pic on here when I finish the sunstone. I have three to cut before I get to that one. Thanks for the compliment on the cut job, it is the round bar cut.It was the faceters guild competition cut a couple years ago.
I am exited!! Turning into a gem cutter.
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The stone I got is orange with red shillers and, on one axis it color shifts to green! I will post a pic on here when I finish the sunstone. I have three to cut before I get to that one. Thanks for the compliment on the cut job, it is the round bar cut.It was the faceters guild competition cut a couple years ago.
This is all I use! I need to resurface my DarkSide Batt, or buy a new one. I got some Linde A polishing powder and, these two together make polishing an enjoyable experience!
This is all I use! I need to resurface my DarkSide Batt, or buy a new one. I got some Linde A polishing powder and, these two together make polishing an enjoyable experience!
You got that right! Hat's off to gearloose! He's one of the true greats, and funny too! I really miss Jeff G, even if we frequently didn't agree; I respected his criticism/critique.
Those 2 guys were the inspiration that got me into it. I'd guess I've cut over 100 or so mostly Jeff's designs but I've never done Sunstone.
Have you done anything with a protractor machine?
Well I might do it right after the two I am selling. Need to make up for the week I am taking off of my real job, money wise.I think you need to move that to the number one spot to cut next.
Thats my vote.
Well I might do it right after the two I am selling. Need to make up for the week I am taking off of my real job, money wise.
Yup I understand that. This vaping is taking all my extra monies
I sure am having a lot of fun though.That is a bummer when all that knowledge goes away like that. I would really like to visit with Gerald Wykoff and, pick his brain. He is the inventor of the calibrated jamb peg I use. Do you know where to find pricing guides comparable to Jeffs?
Yup I understand that. This vaping is taking all my extra monies
This will be the first gem I cut, without an ashtray next to me! I smell so good!
Cool stay in touch, I think you've really inspired me to get off my ....!
Congrats on the gem cutting.
I need to find a job doing something I enjoy where I can also make money doing it... god life has gotten pretty depressing over the last few months.
I need to find a job doing something I enjoy where I can also make money doing it... god life has gotten pretty depressing over the last few months.
No. Jeff is one of the only ones I've ever seen published. As you may know Gearloose is rather accessible by email, he's a true genius and pretty damn funny too.
Hi there mi528...Have you had any problems with your Inland? I read somewhere they was having electrical problems right from the box.
Nice work on the stones...I would like to get in to that one day too. My son got me into rock collecting when he was about 3 or 4yo and I would pick him up from daycare and he would have his pockets stuffed with rocks. If he run out of room in his pockets he would put some in his shoes and underwear...in which case I would carefully make sure they were in fact rocks and he wasnt trying to make his own Coprolite!
That Xmas I got him a Lortone 8qt tumbler and helped him polish stuff he found and I bought for him. We live in MD so all we have here is mica and sandstone so I started hunting and buying samples and rough..mainly from a seller on feebay..AstroGalleries. I bought a flex shaft tool and diamond paste and a bunch of small tools to do carvings by hand but unfortunately money run out when my back did and could no longer work. I wanted to get a lap and do stuff like intarsia but with a twist...like bonding different stones together and carve and polish it to make shapes and oddball stuff. I dont have artistic talent for carving animals or something like that..and I like to keep the rocks as whole as possible so just polishing was fine with me. My first project was this heart in a heart I made for the wife in which I used a piece of the turquoise(her birthstone) in the one pic and embedded a piece of ruby(my birthstone) that you can see sticking out on the ruby pic.
If you want you can see some of the stuff I have collected as well as some crystals I helped my daughter grow for a science project here...Rocks Minerals and Crystals pictures by larryis3 - Photobucket
Oh and the azurite that is shown there is just one I would LIKE to have...I think it was like $800.
Here is a list of some of it too if interested..View attachment ROCK LOG.xlsThat is just the stuff I have mostly in one spot as we have rocks all over the house laying around waiting for that display case one day!
Nothing really gem quality though but some of it is nice....like the chunk of Topaz I cleaned up for my son since its his birthstone...again just barely trimming the bad parts off not worrying about the shape.Keep the pics coming...always interested in this hobby...and I hope you can do well for yourself.
Hi Nicotime. I have not had any complaints with my swap top! I am really pleased with it. For me to use it for faceting I had to take out the internal circuitry and, use a router speed controller. For some reason when I ran it at slower speeds it would surge and, not run at a constant speed. I also had to change the way they used to attach the flat laps. As far as using it for simple shaping and polishing, it would be perfect out of the box.
I checked out your pics. There are some neat specimens there. Did you facet the clear gem by hand? I really like the heart you made. Good work!
I checked out your pics. There are some neat specimens there. Did you facet the clear gem by hand? I really like the heart you made. Good work!
I see...that was some time ago I read about it too so they might have fixed the problems with them. Yeah all I would need is something to do freehand with.
Thanks...yeah on the topaz I have have some of the 1.5" stick on diamond laps for the flex shaft tool that I used for the facets...but as you can see they aren't real straight. It originally looked like a piece broken off of a crystal so I just ground the fractures out with Mizzy wheels and polished out. It made my boy feel like he had a diamond or something so he was happy!
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